Why not use digital camera technology?
With the present state of technology, there are several problems associated with digital cameras: • The ability for a camera to capture a picture digitally has a direct relationship to the quality of the optics, and hence, the output quality of the camera. For instance, an inexpensive web-cam type camera will never create acceptably high quality results, regardless of mega-pixel capacity, because of the poor quality optical system used. • Digital cameras are typically designed for security type applications, where quality is not an issue. • Digital cameras have severe bandwidth limitations, allowing only a small number of connections. Often the video frame rate will drop proportionally to the number of users connected. For this reason, some cameras support network multicast, however, multicast is not handled properly by most networks. • Digital cameras can have very high latency (30 or more second delay). Landro encoding servers can stream video with only a 2-3 second delay. • Digital
